Word: stiff
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Events where Princeton runners could score victories include the 440 yard relay and the 880. In the latter a stiff fight is expected between Endricat of the Tigers and Royce Shaw and Trey Burns...
...LEADERSHIP. ARVN officers traditionally represent the cream of Vietnamese society, a social caste preserved by stiff educational requirements for officer candidates. Thus, unlike the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armies, ARVN offers little opportunity for skilled soldiers to rise up from the ranks. The result is that it suffers both in loss of potential talent and in its political image among the peasantry. Until recently, Abrams had made little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks...
...organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...
...lightweight crew makes its bow today against Columbia and Rutgers on the Harlem River. And it is obvious that this crew is going to have to prove itself more than most crews at Harvard in past years. The competition is stiff...